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brad industry posted:Sorry that little rant wasn't really directed at Chase Jarvis (I like his iPhone app - oh sorry I mean PHOTO ECOSYSTEM). But when was the last time he actually twittered or blogged his own drat work? It's all socialmediatwittercrowdsourcemyspacecontestseo stuff and I'm just tired of hearing about it. I do like Chase Jarvis's work. The man can be annoying, and talks more about himself than his work these days; true. I'm going to guess this is because he's discovered that he can make way more money speaking, writing, and selling things to wide-eyed amateurs than he could taking pictures. He's building up his name as a personality/brand. As annoying as that is, I can't begrudge him that. It says nothing about his photography, good or bad, but it says a lot about his business savvy. The downside, of course, (as you mention) is that someone like Jarvis being successful at this inspires as many new slimy businessmen as it does photographers.
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daspope posted:I am starting to shoot film on a camera without a lightmeter. Would it be safe to use a phone app or a cheap old p&s as a reference? Generally, lightmeters are lightmeters. I've used my iPhone to meter for pinholes, and a D70 to meter for 4x5. It gets easier, of course, the more forgiving the film you're shooting is.
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I use Focalware and Photo Buddy on my iPhone. They work well.
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InternetJunky posted:I thought we used to have a photo printing thread, but I couldn't find it. I've just run out of the Epson Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster that I bought when I picked up my photo printer and now I'm trying to find an acceptable replacement. The cost to replace this paper seems to be about $35/50 sheets and I was hoping there was a different brand of high-quality photo paper that was similar to the Epson stuff that I could use instead. If someone knows of a good alternative, and/or a cheap place to order it I would be most appreciative. Back when I was printing my own, I used the Ilford photo papers a lot, and liked them. Not cheap, but not Epson prices.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Does the higher angle of incidence of the light rays closer to the border of the image circle affect the IQ on mirrorless cameras? I'd like to think that the microlenses wouldn't particularly like that. SLR cameras and their higher flange distance would result in a lens design with more perpendicular rays. This is exactly the problem with the Sony A7 and wide-angle Leica lenses. It's not a problem with so-called 'telenormal' lenses, ones which put a very flat light cone out the backside. Because SLR lenses have the mirrorbox to deal with, they're all kind of like that.
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I thought about putting this in the medium format thread, but that seems a bit, ah, digiphobic... It appears that both Hasselblad and Phase One are on the verge of announcing 50mp CMOS-based medium format sensor packages. The rumor articles allude to the Phase One coming as a back, and the Hasselblad being a new integrated body. Given the sudden and similar (rumored) announcements, what do you think of the possibility that they're both going to be using the same underlying chip tech? In any case, these will be beyond the pricepoints of anyone I know, but it's an interesting jump. The move to CMOS leaves open the interesting possibility of, withing a generation or two, medium-format digital video. Time to start hoarding old large-format cine lenses?
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Musket posted:Budget? TBF you should throw money at a tripod. Here are some reasons why: I don't know about MeFoto, but I will second what this man says about money. Over the last 8 years, I've had a lot of cheap-medium range tripods crap out on me, breaking in a wild variety of ways. Spend the money.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Why do the photos I take on a digital camera look so bad on mobile devices? If I upload scans of film shots they look fine on any screen but digital shots on my mobile device, even in the Flickr and tumblr apps, look really green. Is this some colour space issue? I remember people asking about this before but can't remember if anyone got any results. Thanks! Sounds colorspacey. Care to post some examples?
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Helicity posted:Shooting medium format ISO 100 slide film on some one-in-a-lifetime landscape scenes, and I'm getting paranoid about making every shot count. I don't have the luxury of using a narrow aperture since available light will probably be an issue. If they are landscape scenes, why aren't you using a tripod and shooting with a tight aperture over a longer exposure?
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DILLIGAF posted:Anyone know where to get small quantities of aluminum or small-cell plastic honeycomb? I've purchased the supplies for, but have yet to attempt using, the cheap-Strobist method of making these things. Black straws. Gaff them together into a bundle and trim to desired length. In theory anyway, I'm going to bet the result is actually a bit fragile.
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I recently found this article over at reddit, and it has answered a LOT of questions I've had for years about just how depth-of-field functions: http://toothwalker.org/optics/dof.html
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mclifford82 posted:I wouldn't take your gear anywhere near it if you want to use it again. It's considered negligent use by rental services and isn't covered under their damage waivers. Go check it out: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/05/how-to-ruin-your-gear-in-5-minutes-without-water One of the comments in that link suggests using an underwater housing; something like that would probably be your best bet. Though since you don't need pressure protection, you might get away with a well-sealed rain bag.
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Captain Organ posted:Does anybody have a preferred source for replacement light seal material, I was just gifted a pair of old cameras, but their seals are just black powder at this point. Also, is there anything substantially better for cleaning old bodies than isopropyl alcohol? A quick search will get you a number of results for black foam that will do the trick. When I had to reseal my C-220, I found vendors who actually had kits cut to the right size for the camera, including applicators, adhesive-layered foam, and cleaning gear to get the old gunk off. Stuff like this: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/light-seal As far as I know, it's all pretty cheap stuff, and is more or less the same wherever you get it from.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Uh, graduated ND filters. They're mostly 1-3 stops on part of the surface. Graduated filters give you dynamic range benefits without having to merge multiple exposures in Photoshop. Merging multiple exposures in Photoshop, however, gives you much finer control.
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ArcMage posted:While we're apparently on the subject of older DSLRs, KEH has bargain-grade 1Dmk2 bodies for an actually affordable price. What do you consider 'general carry?' The entire mirrorless category exists because DSLRs are too large and bulky to carry around casually. A 1D is significantly larger than your standard DSLR.
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404notfound posted:http://mentalfloss.com/article/57807/vantablack-new-material-so-dark-you-cant-see-it I want to coat my car in this just to see how long it takes me to find the door handle. Actually, probably better to do it to someone else's car.
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Huxley posted:
Iiiii wish I had read down before following those links. We're not talking like 'tasteful nudes' NSFW. We're talking like, 'here's some, er, a lot of pornography I'm using to make a joke with' NSFW.
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Pukestain Pal posted:Yeah, if you are doing it professionally, they'll just charge you a bit more. Shouldn't be outrageous. FWIW, I'm a dedicated hobbyist, but I pay ~$600-odd a year for professional insurance. I'm covered for $40,000 worth of gear, both mine and rented. Rental shops don't have to hold anything on my card except for a deductible, and I can walk out of there with half the store. I also now carry $2 million in professional liability coverage that came along for the ride. Just in case I maim anybody with a speedlight. It does help when scouting locations. "Can I use your store/factory/lot/farm to take some pictures in?" "I don't think our insurance would allow that." "Check this poo poo out."
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Year ago, I bought a generic Chinese ebay hand-strap. Unlike most I've seen for sale, this is a kind of 3-point harness; while it attaches as usual at the side and bottom of the camera, it includes a sort of 'loop' around the base of the thumb; as such it's super secure and snug when tightened — I love it. However, after about 8 years of constant use, it has finally given up the ghost; the faux leather is flaking off, and the plastic base snapped. This leaves me looking for a new hand-strap. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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InternetJunky posted:It's 1/4" thick but I don't think it's translucent at all. The image is on a white board with the acrylic over that, so maybe some light would pass through. Very cool. I'm seeing that the places that do this also tend to do the aluminum prints as well. I wish I could see samples of the two side by side.
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BANME.sh posted:Flickr changed their homepage photo stream layout again. Much nicer now. I'm liking most of the new Flickr changes, except that when someone posts multiple photos at once, the thumbnails to switch between them still overlap the first photo. Now that they've introduced a margin, I wish they'd use it.
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GoldenNugget posted:Kind of an emergency question. I am going to Iceland to take pictures next week and I had forgotten my charger and my tripod at my apartment 4 hours away from where I am now. Iceland is remote, but it's not the third world. There's at least one photo store.
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Alright, I've hit a wall. I went to Costa Rica on business, and took a daytrip to a volcano. Got a multi-image stitched panorama I really like. But I can't tell if I like it more in lush colors, or dramatic black and white. How do I solve this? 
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Thanks, all. I ended up being weak and posting the color version of that shot, but going black and white on a different, tighter-cropped panorama I shot a moment later. B+W suits that one better, I think.EL BROMANCE posted:Anyone here have a 5K iMac they use to edit their photos on? Curious to how big a benefit there is over the old 27 iMac that I use currently, especially with large resolution photos in Lightroom. If you use it in the retina mode (rather than the full res of the monitor) does the software render it so you are able to see 1:1 without much zooming? My pics are 6,000 pixels wide at 24mp so still above native res, but not too much. I'm not solid on all the terminology you're using, but I have some experience using Lightroom on a retina Macbook Pro. No matter what 'zoom level' you set OSX to, the display of the images uses every last physical pixel, for extreme crispness. Using the Navigator in the top-left corner, you can set the desired zoom level for the Loupe-view spacebar zoom-in, so that you can hop to 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 or whatever you want, so you can see the image's pixels or not based on your preference. In short, Lightroom gets high-res screens right.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah doing some reading it sounds like it's able to use native resolution within Lightroom and scale the GUI appropriately which is sweet, lots of people moaning about performance though even with the GPU support in LR6. Sounds frustrating, but it's probably still faster than my i7 2.93 quad with a much older card while doing it at higher quality. Hopefully. I've heard some worrying things about the Retina iMac's performance in general. They're making a fairly weak card push a LOT of pixels. If you can, I'd probably advise waiting a revision.
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xzzy posted:Koken on a vps. The announcement that the dev team of Koken is attempting to sell it brings me great sadness. I like this software, and use it for my 'real' portfolio. But yeah, sounds like Flickr is what he's looking for.
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Slanderer posted:For anyone who has a portable lighting setup--how are you protecting your bulbs? I really don't want a CFL bulb breaking in my bag. Should I get light cages for transport? Or should I just keep repacking them in their original retail boxes (since those have foam cut to the right shape)? My Paul C Buff lights come with a hard plastic bulb cover, and a carrying case. Without those, I'd have had many broken bulbs. What sort of stuff do you have?
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Dren posted:I import stuff to yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd. After import I rename the folders to "yyyy-mm-dd <event desc.>". I have some smart collections that grab stuff by keyword but am not fastidious about my keywording. Same here. Works well, I have stuff going back to 2002 this way, though I'm rapidly approaching the limits of a 2TB drive due to my unwillingness to delete anything.
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ExecuDork posted:Yes. Even better if you can avoid getting paid to do it, but still convince somebody else to cover the expenses. You really should ask your insurance company. I have my gear double covered, with both a rider on my renters insurance and separate photographer's insurance. I had to get the photo insurance in order to rent some serious gear without leaving a $25,000 deposit/hold for replacement value. Came with bonus one million dollars of coverage for liability. The peace of mind is worth it.
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Has anyone played around with anamorphic lenses before? I got interested in them a few months ago, but got turned off by the dual-focus/lens nature of most setups. SLR Magic just announced a new set of PL-mount lenses that can be adapted for just about anything. They're likely a bit pricey for loving-around-with, but they've reignited my interest: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5024553860/slr-magic-announces-anamorphic-lenses-for-filmmakers thetzar fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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For what it's worth, others here turned me onto the On Taking Pictures podcast. It has an associated Google Plus group (right? I know!) which I find to be good-not-great, but a worthwhile supplement to the Dorkroom.
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evil_bunnY posted:The way I've done it is by checking for square first, lining up adn clamping 2 opposite corners, then glue+kicker the 2 *other* corners. Then unclamp and glue from the inside going out to chase air bubbles. I would not have thought of that, but very good idea.
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Mannequin posted:Been a while since I posted here. Had a question regarding portfolio sites and this is something I've always struggled with: is it better to post the work other people think is your best, the work you think is your best, or a mix of both? I'm doing a mix of both. But some of the pictures that people are really drawn to (based on flickr stats at least) I feel are somewhat iffy, and some of the pictures I personally love get almost no attention. Post the work you want to do more of.
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I learned photography from scratch on a Minolta SRT-101. I fully endorse it. Manual, simple, tank-built and understandable. Great lenses that are dirt cheap now. A simple manual focus system, and a decent built-in meter. The only trick is that you need to use a battery adapter to use modern batteries for the meter — easily obtained on ebay. Camera functions perfectly well without the battery/lightmeter, too. That sort of manual camera is the perfect place to learn about the exposure triangle. That said, if you want to shoot film and get great results, medium might be more your game.
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Well, Flickr's upload functionality broke again. It'll probably get fixed tomorrow. If Yahoo dies the great corporate death and takes Flickr with it I'm going to be very, very unhappy.
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Saddamnit posted:Anyone else having difficulty uploading to Flickr from Lightroom today? I haven't had an issue the past few weeks, but today Lightroom keeps telling me that it can't connect to Flickr and to check my internet connection. The thing is, it will remove photos from my Flickr account just fine, but doesn't seem to want to upload any. I searched around for some potential solutions to this problem, but haven't found anything that works yet. Any ideas how I might be able to get photos to upload again? Flickr seems to die regularly on Sundays of late. Tends to get fixed overnight.
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SMERSH Mouth posted:poo poo! Now I've got to go back and find that link.. Yahoo's dying and taking Flickr with it. drat them. Upload just started working again for me, at least.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:For anyone curious, The Sweethome updated their "Best Online Print Service" article: Interesting that mpix is rated so poorly there; I had been using them for some time and was always happy enough. Maybe time to test the competition.
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And then just let your computer alone to chew for a few days.
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